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Our long struggle for home : the Ipperwash story  Cover Image Book Book

Our long struggle for home : the Ipperwash story / Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig (The Ones Who Come From Aazhoodena).

Summary:

"Most Canadians know only a tiny apart of the Ipperwash story--the 1995 police shooting of Dudley George. In Our Long Struggle for Home, George's sister, cousins, and others from the Stoney Point Reserve tell of broken promises and thwarted hopes in the decades-long battle to reclaim their ancestral homeland, both before and after the police action culminating in George's death. Offering insights into Nishnaabeg lifeways and historical treaties, this compelling account conveys how government decisions have affected lives, livelihoods, and identity. We hear of the devastation wrought by forcible eviction when the government re-purposed Nishnaabeg ancestral territory as an army training camp in 1942, promising to return it after the war. By May 1993, the elders had waited long enough. They entered the still-functioning training camp, under cover of a picnic outing, and constituted themselves as the interim government of the reclaimed Stoney Point Reserve. The next two years brought cultural and social revival, though it was ultimately quashed as an illegal occupation. Our Long Struggle for Home also shows what can be accomplished through perseverance and undiminished belief in a better future. This is a necessary lesson on colonialism, the power of resistance, persistence, and the possibilities inherent in recognizing treaty rights."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780774890571 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 184 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver : On Point Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: George, Dudley, 1957-1995.
Race discrimination > Ontario.
First Nations > Legal status, laws, etc. > Ontario.
First Nations > Ontario > Ipperwash Provincial Park Region > Claims.
First Nations > Canada > Government relations > 1951-
First Nations > Ontario > Ipperwash Provincial Park Region > History.
Ipperwash Incident, Ont., 1993-
First Nations > Land tenure > Ontario > Ipperwash Provincial Park Region.
Ontario > Ethnic relations.
Ontario > Race relations.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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